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The Main Agroecologycal Structure (MAS) of the Agroecosystems: Concept, Methodology and Applications

Tomás Enrique León-Sicard
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José Javier Toro Calderón
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Liven Fernando Martinez-Bernal
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José Alejandro Cleves-Leguízamo
Version 1 : Received: 28 February 2018 / Approved: 1 March 2018 / Online: 1 March 2018 (07:33:45 CET)
Version 2 : Received: 8 May 2018 / Approved: 9 May 2018 / Online: 9 May 2018 (07:37:48 CEST)

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León-Sicard, T.E.; Toro Calderón, J.; Martínez-Bernal, L.F.; Cleves-Leguízamo, J.A. The Main Agroecological Structure (MAS) of the Agroecosystems: Concept, Methodology and Applications. Sustainability 2018, 10, 3131. León-Sicard, T.E.; Toro Calderón, J.; Martínez-Bernal, L.F.; Cleves-Leguízamo, J.A. The Main Agroecological Structure (MAS) of the Agroecosystems: Concept, Methodology and Applications. Sustainability 2018, 10, 3131.

Abstract

This document presents, from environmental thinking (ecosystem - culture relations), the concept of the Main Agroecological Structure of Agroecosystems (MAS, EAP, for its acronym in Spanish), considered as a dissipative cultural structure. It discusses its possible applications (resilience, production, diversity) both inside and outside the farms. The MAS can be useful in the land planning on the farms, based on the concept of potential MAS that allows the quantification of the management of internal and external corridors, including natural vegetation. At the same time, it can be useful in the context of landscape management because it shows a series of cultural relations (economic, social, symbolic and technological) hidden from the partial analysis of landscape ecology.

Keywords

agrobiodiversity; environment; ecosystem; culture; farms; planning

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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